Carcass Fungistasis of the Burying Beetle Nicrophorus nepalensis Hope (Coleoptera: Silphidae)

Figure 3

The number of Trichoderma sp. colonies (mean  ±  standard error) on CMA plates at 7 d after inoculation that were produced from the various inoculums. The inoculums were prepared from Trichoderma sp. suspended in ultrapure water (control group: 𝑛=16) and the anal secretions of sexually mature males (MM: 𝑛=16), sexually mature females (MF: 𝑛=15), immature males (IM: 𝑛=16), and immature females (IF: 𝑛=16).